Usually means: Reckless extravagance or wasteful spending.
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  14. profligacy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (profligacy)

▸ noun:  (countable) Careless wastefulness.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) Shameless and immoral behaviour.

Similar:
prodigality, extravagance, licentiousness, dissolution, dissipation, prodigalism, spendthrift, filchery, misspending, frivolity, more...

Opposite:
frugality, prudence, temperance

Types:
wantonness, extravagance, prodigality, lavishness, imprudence, wastefulness, more...

Adjectives:
open, political, such, general, shameless, fiscal, sexual, notorious, extreme, gross, financial

Colors:
    gold,     silver,     crimson,     scarlet,     emerald, more...

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Similar:
prodigality, extravagance, licentiousness, dissolution, dissipation, prodigalism, spendthrift, filchery, misspending, frivolity, more...

Opposite:
frugality, prudence, temperance

Types:
wantonness, extravagance, prodigality, lavishness, imprudence, wastefulness, more...

Adjectives:
open, political, such, general, shameless, fiscal, sexual, notorious, extreme, gross, financial

Colors:
    gold,     silver,     crimson,     scarlet,     emerald, more...



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